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PBS is facing a painful lesson in institutional memory. The public broadcaster has lost access to roughly seventy years of television history after a cloud storage vendor went defunct. PBS is now suing Iron Mountain, which hosts the physical data center, to secure what remains. It's a stark reminder that outsourcing preservation doesn't mean guaranteeing it.
That story connects to a much older question about who actually holds your data. A piece from two thousand fourteen is circulating again, and its argument still lands hard. The author points out that even if you never signed up for Gmail, Google likely has your emails anyway, because nearly everyone you correspond with uses it. Your privacy choices only go so far when the people around you have already made different ones.
Meanwhile, on the regulatory front, the SEC has again delayed its so-called innovation exemption for tokenized assets. The agency had been expected to release guidance alongside a now-canceled open meeting on crypto regulation, but concerns from both Wall Street and the White House appear to have pumped the brakes. The gap between blockchain ambition and regulatory clarity remains as wide as ever.
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